shes in love with the concept
as if were all just how she imagined
cos were in love i just dont know it yet
well tell me how am i supposed to see the magic
cos i dont believe in it no more
but i wont tell her
cos i always imagined
its easier if she thinks she won
so imma let her

and she said
i dont think i love you no more
you never seem to call me lately
girl i dont think you know me at all
cos i never thought id have to say this
but i dont love you
and i never did look at us
burning down in flames for kicks
but just know
im not singing for your xo
im just singing cos its over

came and went like the summertime
was that a sunset or sunrise
looking back like whered the time go
so much for trying to keep this moving slow
cos i dont believe in her no more
but i remember

how we talked shit like we knew what we wanted
and i still remember what she said

i dont think i love you no more
you never seem to call me lately
but i dont think she knew me at all
cos i never thought id have to say this
but im no liar and i never hid anything
you shouldve seen it coming to this
just know
im not singing for an ex tho
im just singing cos its over

Declared by LA Weekly as one of the “best shows to see in LA”, Herbert Bail Orchestra have been busy this summer promoting their latest single You Are Beautiful to their legion of devout fans. Known for their dusty frontier sound and poignant ballads of the great American west, this band represents a musical narrative rich with epic tales of timeless proportions.

The music lineup for the 8th annual Lightning in a Bottle International Music and Arts Festival produced by The Do LaB has been announced, with electronic pioneers Nicolas Jaar, Rusko, Tycho, Paper Diamond, Emancipator, PANTyRAiD, Lee Burridge, GRiZ and more to headline.

The country’s premier boutique music and arts festival also includes the sounds of Miguel Migs, Eskmo, Tim Green, Cari Lekebusch, Blockhead, and Kastle. In addition to the world class talent above, other notables include house legend François K, the emerging indie melodies of Blackbird Blackbird, Los Angeles Icon Jason Bentley, the foot-stomping anthems of Herbert Bail Orchestra, plus over 100 more industry leading acts and of course the performance-art enhanced vision of The Lucent Dossier Experience.

This year, with new dates from July 11 to July 15, 2013, and a new location at Lake Skinner County Park in Temecula, CA, The Do LaB continues on their journey to bring to life one of the most unique festivals in the world.

Over the past eight years, The Do LaB has worked tirelessly to produce the most innovative festival on the international circuit, transcending any typical perception of the modern gathering. By fusing the energy of the bass music sound with the introspective qualities of installation art, performance art, spiritual living workshops, and an overriding sense of conscious sustainability, Lightning in a Bottle has risen to unparalleled heights.

In the words of one of the The Do LaB’s event creation visionaries, “Our goal with the music is to create a positive and uplifting experience, with a good balance of beautiful melodic music and good old party music. After 4 months of in depth research and a lot of listening we tried to cover as many genres as possible that we feel fit the vibe that we’re trying to create with Lightning in a Bottle.”- Jesse Flemming, Co-Founder/Curator, The Do LaB.

Much of Lightning in a Bottle’s intimate singularity is expressed through The Lucent Temple of Consciousness, an amazing sanctuary for all participants to enrich the soul and inspire the spirit. The 2013 schedule inside the Lucent Temple, built out of recycled and found objects, will include over 300 different experiences in yoga, workshops, speakers and exotic world music.

ABOUT THE DO LAB / LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE
Based in Los Angeles, The Do LaB’s mission is to craft experience as art and bring communities together. Aside from showcasing electronic music artists throughout Southern California, The Do LaB is well known for creating unique art installations/stages and curating cutting edge acts at the inner misting Oasis stage at Coachella in addition to producing Southern California’s Lightning in a Bottle and the game changing 2012 Winter Solstice event The Great Convergence which took place at the pyramids of Giza in Egypt. The Do Lab’s work has also been showcased at Virgin Music Festival, Global Gathering, Portugal’s Boom Festival and many more.

Lord Huron
New single Lonesome Dreams
Released 18th March 2013 on Play It Again Sam / I AM SOUND
Full UK Tour this May

“Schneider shows such an unerring ability to locate the sense of yearning and wonder that lies at the heart of
the best Americana” ‘Album of the Week’, The Sunday Times
“Springsteen meets Thoreau” 8/10 Uncut
“Something original” The Observer
“Sounding classic on arrival” ***** Record Collector
“like Fleet Foxes on horseback” Mojo

Following the release of their magnificent and much praised debut album Lonesome Dreams – Lord Huron are pleased to announce their new single will be Lonesome Dreams the title track of the album.

Led by Michigan-born songwriting prodigy and general creative genius Ben Schneider, their sound – a joyous collision of Appalachian percussion, rustic guitars and sumptuous harmonies lit up by the odd lens-flare flash of electronics – has won rave reviews from either side of the Atlantic.

Inspired by the rust coloured canyons and characters of the Wild West (with the emphasis on wild), the record also encompasses short films, intriguing artwork and a series of imagined novels by a fictional ageing wordsmith, the mysterious George Ranger Johnson. “I’m interested in creating a world with its own mythology,” says Schneider, the Michigan native.

Lord Huron began as a solo endeavor in 2010 but Schneider has since enlisted some of his “best amigos” to turn his songs into a powerful live experience: Mark Barry (percussion, vocals), Miguel Briseno (bass, percussion) and Tom Renaud (guitar, vocals). “We’ve got a pretty good working relationship,” he says. “A good wrestling match can solve almost anything we disagree about.”

Now, after a string of sold-out US shows, their stratospheric rise is set to spread to British shores. Described as “a mysterious, powerful force” by LA Weekly, the band’s live shows brings to life the effervescent noise of Lonesome Dreams, an album as vast and easy to lose yourself in as a Sergio Leone cinescape. They’re first shows outside of the US in London in February sold out in days and the band make a return to the UK for a full regional tour including a headline show at the Scala in London in May.

Play It Again Sam Recordings will release the soundtrack album of Channel 4’s winter highlight, The Snowman and The Snowdog, by Ilan Ishkeri and Andy Burrows, on December 17th. The sequel to the Raymond Briggs-penned, Oscar-winning classic, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this Christmas, The Snowman and The Snowdog is a Briggs-endorsed follow-up created by many of the same team that first brought the much-loved Snowman to life. The sequel carries the magic of the first film, with a modern score by composer Eshkeri and singer/songwriter Burrows that underpins the tale.

The score for The Snowman and The Snowdog was recorded at Abbey Road Studios by the London Metropolitan Orchestra. The 60 piece ensemble was joined by a choir of Andy and Ilan’s friends and musical collaborators, including Emmy The Great, Edith Bowman, All Angels, Celia Graham (Phantom of the Opera) and others. The score features violin from Haylie Ecker (former Bond member), guitar from Tim Wheeler (Ash), piano from the hotly-tipped solo artist Tom Odell, bass from Aristazabal Hawkes (Guilllemots) and drums from Dom Howard (Muse).

The film’s official single Light The Night, written by Andy and Ilan and performed by Andy, features in the iconic flying sequence of The Snowman and The Snowdog, just as ‘Walking in the Air’ featured in the flying sequence of The Snowman in 1982.

Ilan Eshkeri says, ‘The Snowman is an institution in the UK and I am incredibly excited to be involved in the sequel. The music is an iconic part of the film as, without dialogue, it helps to tell the story by expressing the characters’ emotions.’

Andy Burrows adds, ‘It was a huge honour to be asked to write the music with Ilan for The Snowman and The Snowdog. When he first rang me and told me, I dropped the phone. It’s a total dream come true for me. The new film has all the magic of the original and fills you with festive warmth, but floors you and has you in tears at the same time. Working with the same team who were responsible for the original film has been such a fantastic experience.’

Light The Night by Andy Burrows is available for download on iTunes from Monday 10th December, along with the album version of Hometown taken from Burrows’ recent release Company. A re-recorded orchestral version of Hometown features on the soundtrack. Both orchestral tracks will feature on the official soundtrack released digitally worldwide on Monday 17th December. Full tracklisting is as follows:

Andy Burrows has announced details of a UK tour in February 2013. Burrows, whose superb solo album, Company, was released last month, will play shows that include a date at London’s Bush Hall on February 21st, with tickets on sale today (December 3rd).

As previously announced, Andy Burrows has – with the composer Ilan Eskeri – written the soundtrack for Channel 4’s Christmas highlight, The Snowman and The Snowdog, the sequel to the Raymond Briggs-penned, Oscar-winning classic that was first broadcast 30 years ago. Created by many of the same team that first brought the much-loved Snowman to life, the sequel carries the magic of the first film, with a modern score by Eshkeri and Burrows that underpins the tale to stunning effect.

The film’s official single Light The Night, written by Andy and Ilan and performed by Andy, features in the iconic flying sequence of The Snowman and The Snowdog, just as Walking in the Air featured in the flying sequence of The Snowman in 1982.

Light The Night is released on December 10th, along with the album version of Andy’s Hometown single, which is already shaping up to be another big radio hit, and has been added to the Radio 2 A List. A re-recorded orchestral version of Hometown features on the soundtrack. Both orchestral tracks will feature on the official soundtrack released digitally worldwide on Monday 17th December.

Andy Burrows Announces Music Soundtrack to Channel 4’s The Snowman and The Snowdog

Channel 4 has announced the music soundtrack to the brand new The Snowman and The Snowdog film has been penned and recorded by award-winning British composer Ilan Eshkeri and the supremely talented singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andy Burrows.

The sequel to the original Oscar-nominated classic, The Snowman, will feature a brand new story and musical soundtrack and will premiere this Christmas on Channel 4. It will be screened on the 30th anniversary of the original film and will reunite viewers with the world’s favourite Christmas character.

The score for The Snowman and The Snowdog was recorded at Abbey Road Studios earlier this month by the London Metropolitan Orchestra. The 60-piece ensemble was joined by a choir of Andy and Ilan’s celebrity friends, including Emmy The Great, Edith Bowman, All Angels, Celia Graham (Phantom of the Opera) and others. The score also features violin from Haylie Ecker (former Bond member), guitar from Tim Wheeler (Ash), piano from Tom Odell, bass from Aristazabal Hawkes (Guilllemots) and drums from Dom Howard (Muse).

The film’s official single ‘Light The Night’ written by Andy and Ilan and performed by Andy features in the iconic flying sequence of the Snowman and The Snowdog, just as ‘Walking in the Air’ featured in the flying sequence of The Snowman. In 1982, ‘Walking in the Air’ was performed by St Paul’s Cathedral choirboy Peter Auty and later re-recorded for single release with Welsh chorister Aled Jones and became a chart hit.

Ilan (Stardust, The Young Victoria, Layer Cake) was delighted to collaborate with singer songwriter Andy. They had been looking to co-write a project for a while and had previously featured on each other’s work. Andy played Drums on Ilan’s score for Johnny English Reborn and Ilan wrote strings for for Andy and Tom Smith’s album ‘Funny Looking Angels’. Andy first came to attention with Razorlight, co-writing some of the band’s biggest hits, including the #1 single, America. Burrows left Razorlight in 2009 and has gone on to launch a successful solo career, with his recent ‘Company’ album earning righteous acclaim, and through pairing up with long-time friend and Editors frontman Tom Smith as Smith & Burrows to release the aforementioned ‘Funny Looking Angels’ – an album of wintery vignettes and Christmas melancholy.

The secrecy surrounding the music of The Snowman and The Snowdog led Andy and Ilan to create the twitter trend #secretproject where photos were posted as the work progressed with music producers Steve McLaughlin and Tim Baxter.

Camilla Deakin, one of the producers of The Snowman and The Snowdog from Lupus Films, says ‘We loved Ilan’s film composing work and knew that he’d collaborated with a number of major artists on songs for films so he felt the perfect choice for writing the soundtrack for ‘The Snowman and The Snowdog’. When we first met with Ilan we discussed the fact that we wanted the music to have the same hand-crafted feel as the film itself, with an honesty and intimacy about it that befits the fact that the film is all hand-drawn. We wanted songs that worked seamlessly with the score and an adult male voice this time, not a choir boy. So when Ilan played us some of Andy’s songs we knew that we’d found the singer-songwriter we needed. ‘Light the Night’ is such a beautiful song and complements the images perfectly.’

Ilan Eshkeri adds ‘The Snowman is an institution in the UK and I am incredibly excited to be involved in the sequel. The music is an iconic part of the film as, without dialogue, it helps to tell the story by expressing the characters’ emotions.’

Andy Burrows said, ‘It was a huge honour to be asked to write the music with Ilan for The Snowman and The Snowdog. When he first rang me and told me, I dropped the phone. It’s a total dream come true for me. The new film has all the magic of the original and fills you with festive warmth, but floors you and has you in tears at the same time. Working with the same team who were responsible for the original film has been such a fantastic experience.’

‘Light The Night’ is available for download on iTunes from Monday 10th December, along with the track ‘Hometown’ which also features in the film. Both tracks will be taken from the official The Snowman and The Snowdog album soundtrack released digitally on Monday 17th December, on Play It Again Sam Recordings.

The Snowman and The Snowdog

The Snowman and The Snowdog is the brand new charming sequel to the Christmas classic The Snowman. Raymond Briggs’ iconic children’s book follows the wonderful adventures of a young boy and the remarkable snowman he creates. Adapted for the screen in 1982, the Oscar-nominated film – wordless, apart from its evocative theme, Walking in the Air – has been screened by Channel 4 every year since it was first transmitted and has enchanted generations of children.

The Snowman and The Snowdog is directed by Hilary Audus and art directed by Joanna Harrison, both of whom worked as animators on the original film. Producers are Camilla Deakin and Ruth Fielding. The sequel will be dedicated to the late John Coates, who produced the original The Snowman film and was instrumental in getting The Snowman and The Snowdog into production.

The Snowman and The Snowdog is a Snowman Enterprises and Lupus Films production.

Ilan Eshkeri

Ilan Eshkeri is a British composer best known for his film scores to Stardust, The Young Victoria and Kick-Ass, as well as his collaborations with bands. His career is notable for its diversity; recently he scored Ralph Fiennes’ Shakespearean directorial debut Coriolanus, Rowan Atkinson’s comedy caper Johnny English Reborn, collaborated with electronic music legend Amon Tobin on a live performance of his work, and was commissioned to write for the world renown pianist Lang Lang.

Eshkeri is currently working with Ralph Fiennes on his second film as a director, The Invisible Woman, a Dickens’ biopic. Other current projects include co-writing the score for Stone Roses inspired film Spike Island with Ash frontman Tim Wheeler and scoring the animated film Justin and the Knights of Valour starring Antonio Banderas.

Early in his career Eshkeri composed the score to the cult british gangster film Layer Cake, which earned him a nomination for ‘Discovery of the Year’ at the World Soundtrack Awards. His score to

Stardust won the International Film Music Critics Association award for ‘Best Original Score’. Eshkeri’s soundtrack to The Young Victoria topped the classical music charts for several weeks and received a nomination at the Ivor Novello awards. Eshkeri has also been nominated for three world soundtrack awards.

Eshkeri’s collaborations with bands and solo artists include arrangements of Annie Lennox’s best known songs for her concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, arranging for David Gilmour on his last album On An Island, co-writing with The Cinematic Orchestra, and collaborating with Tom

Smith, Editors, and Andy Burrows, Razorlight, on their Christmas album collaboration Smith &

Burrows and with Emmy the Great on her album Virtue. He also wrote the song Only You for

Sinead O’Connor and worked with Take That on the film Stardust.

Andy Burrows

A supremely talented songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Andy Burrows first came to attention with Razorlight, joining as drummer in 2004 and going on to co-write some of that band’s biggest hits, including the #1 single, America. Leaving Razorlight in 2009, Burrows joined We Are Scientists as a part-time member, before releasing the album Sun Comes Up Again, under the moniker I Am Arrows, in 2010. Sun Comes Up Again garnered righteous critical acclaim and massive radio airplay for its Green Grass single.

What followed for Burrows was an incredibly prolific purple patch. First he joined up with long-time friend and Editors frontman Tom Smith as Smith & Burrows for 2011’s Funny Looking Angels, an album of wintery vignettes and Christmas melancholy. Then, he agreed to decamp to New York to become a full-time Scientist. And midst all this, Burrows was hard at work on his own material, using a more straight-ahead approach than on his debut, all of it injected with Burrows‘way with an earworming hook.

The resulting album, Company, emerged as Burrows’ truest yet. He embraced a straight-ahead approach, building an album steeped in rock classicism and raw, melancholic melodies. The result is effortlessly intoxicating – the sound of an artist who’s thrown the shackles off and emerged as an bewilderingly creative tour-de-force.

Patterson Hood
SoloAlbum
‘Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance’ Out Now On Play It Again Sam
Union Chapel 13th November (with Craig Finn)Tickets here.

Drive-By Truckers’ front man/co-songwriter Patterson Hood will release his solo album ‘Heat Lightning Rumbles in The Distance’ through Play It Again Sam on 10th September. Recorded at Chase Park Transduction in Athens, GA and produced by David Barbe and Patterson Hood, the album will be available on CD, vinyl and download. ‘Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance’ is the follow up to Hood’s 2009 album ‘Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)’. A single ‘Better Off Without’ follows the album on 17th September. Patterson has confirmed a show at London’s Union Chapel on 13th November, where he will be joined by Craig Finn of The HoldSteady and Will Johnson from Centro-matic.

Tues 13th November / London / Union Chapel

“Back in January, worn out from having spent a year on tour and facing a new album’s release and another year spent mostly on a bus, away from the comforts of home and family, I decided to try to write a book,” reflects Patterson. “I had made a couple of stabs in that direction before (as well as a couple of screenplays), but had so far failed to complete one. The thing is, I love to write on the road. Iwrite most every day out there. It’s usually not songs, as completing a song amid all of the noise, distractions and music blasting on the bus is very difficult (I do often start songs there that get finished later), but writing non-musical compositions comes pretty easy for me out here and it sure passes the time. Beside, I had an idea for a story I wanted to write and it started coming very easily.”

“The book was basically a half-assed fictionalisation of that very turbulent period of my life,” continues Hood. “I was 27, my band broke up, I got divorced and left my hometown to live in Memphis. My car got stolen, our band’s truck got stripped and I fell in love. I fell out with my family (who I was very, very close to) and had my heart broken. I seriouslypondered killing myself several times but instead wrote literally over 500 songs in a three-year period. A time when I reinvented myself artistically and experienced a sort of rebirth that led to a lot of the things I have done in the last two decades.”

“My book would sort of tell that story, but interspersed with lyrics from that period of my life, as well as new song lyrics either set in that time or from the point of view of various characters from the book. The structure would be chapter / song / chapter /song and so on. If the book was coming fast, the songs were coming even easier. Then the booked stopped coming. Someday I may want to tell that story, but timing is everything and this just isn’t the time for it.”

“The songs, however continued to pour out, taking a few left turns and then morphing into its own thing. Most of this album comes from that short period of time between February and June of 2011. The songs begin in the period that the book was set in, but don’t endthere, as they really just were the impetus for writing about the life I amliving now and contrasting it with the troubled times of two decades ago.”

Recorded in Hood’s hometown of Athens, GA, the album features almost all of Drive-By Truckers, Patterson’s father David Hood, who was a founding member of The Muscle Shoals Sound Rhythm Section and additional musicians. The full line up is as follows; Patterson Hood (vocals, guitar and mandocello), David Hood (bass), Scott Danbom (piano and violin), Jay Gonzalez (piano, mellotron and accordion), David Barbe (bass), Brad Morgan (drums and percussion), Mike Cooley (banjo), Jacob Morris (cello and violin), Kelly Hogan (vocals), Will Johnson (guitar and vocals) and John Neff (pedalsteel).

“I called it ‘Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance’ and decided that spring to record it as a solo album. I could clearly hear in my head exactly how I wanted every song to sound and made a list of who I wanted to play on each one. It is in some ways the most personal album I’ve ever made. There has always been a lot of me in all of the albums we’ve done, but usually semi-disguised as character sketches and stories, but the first person narrative in this one is pretty firmly rooted in autobiography, albeit in two dramatically differingtime periods.”